#286 on Spotify with over 7.5 million monthly listeners and over 3.4 million followers - Artist ranking #401 before TC release

Muse video records for most worldwide daily views on YouTube:

Psycho (Lyric Video): 1,524,342 (2015/03/12) with 96.860% like ratio

Dig Down (Official Video): 1,458,241 (2017/05/18) with 91.433% like ratio

Madness (Lyric Video): 766,329 (2012/08/22) with 94.420% like ratio

Check back tomorrow to see where Thought Contagion ranks including the like percentage compared with Dig Down, the digital download sales rankings at iTunes in various markets around the world, and the number of spins at rock radio in the USA.

The new single should also debut on the Billboard Alternative Songs tally when it is released next week becoming the 18th Muse song to chart.

It entered Billboard Alternative at #30 with 500 weekly spins thru Sunday. The track also entered Rock Airplay at #26 with over 3 million audience impressions. TC is getting more plays than Dig Down in its first week especially in the larger radio markets and could climb into the top 10 in early March. It will likely once again be battling songs from Imagine Dragons, Portugal. The Man, the Killers, and Thirty Seconds to Mars for the summit in the coming weeks.

Matt's interview with RTL2 radio station in Paris before the La Cigale gig:

"We are halfway through the album, Thought Contagion is the second song finished but we still have 5 almost ready. The album will be ready for the summer. And will be released in late 2018 I think. What I can tell you is that Thought Contagion is the only song that sounds like traditional Muse. The next will be a surprise, in a really different style. Next week we will try to make a song with the producer Timbaland, strange enough in truth. Just a song, an experience. We'll see how it goes but without a doubt, we've never been so far out of our comfort zone.

[The album] will not be narrative or concept, but there will obviously be themes that are close to our heart, virtual reality, artificial intelligence ... there is definitely the influence of the series Black Mirror but above all it sent me back to my favorite films, Total recall, Matrix, already 20 years old. It's crazy. But we've always loved film music anyway, but this future album is particularly influenced by the 80's movie music."

From the recent Guardian interview:

Do you guys ever look at the official Muse message board?

"I used to quite a bit - if you wanna find out some stats about the band it's a pretty useful place to go because people on there compile everything that we've ever done, chart positions, sales, stats, gigs, which can be interesting sometimes." - DH

"I used to back when they liked us but zoned out after everyone slagged off Supermassive Black Hole!" - MB

"I used to quite a bit - if you wanna find out some stats about the band it's a pretty useful place to go because people on there compile everything that we've ever done, chart positions, sales, stats, gigs, which can be interesting sometimes." - DH

WNFZ-FM in Knoxville, TN gave TC 54 plays last week followed by 30+ spins at alt rock radio stations in Miami and Orlando, FL; two stations each in Los Angeles, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Kansas City; and stations in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Nashville, Richmond, and Santa Barbara, CA.

Notable cities where Muse have never toured with the most total views of the TC video on YouTube:

Muse officially had concert fees revenue of £62.7m from April 2015-December 2016, drawing an after-tax profit of £24.4m for this period. Turnover by Country of Destination: UK 15% and Rest of Europe 85%

To compare, One Direction reportedly made a turnover of £63.4m in 2015 and recorded a profit of £30.65m for this financial year due to a higher gross profit margin.